Moments ago I finished a set of preliminary sketches for Spencer Hibert’s much-anticipated Cream art gallery / video arcade / coffee shop / vegan donut emporium. Spencer is looking for something that he calls Aztec Atari.
With those two concepts to guide me, I produced the following set of sketches. The colors are fairly arbitrary and don’t really matter at this point; they can be changed in infinite ways. I view the process of choosing colors as a separate project anyway.
Regardless, whatever doesn’t wind up in the mural will probably land in a painting, or two, or 14 … who knows! It’s not the end result I’m concerned about, it’s the process … and I’ve had a lot of fun making these. I found the project very challenging.
Grant’s note of 16 June 09:
I just tended to version 2 by employing Spencer’s guidance (see comments). The first image shown below represents my interpretation of his guidance (version 2a). Below that, I decided to shake up the colors a bit, just to push the idea further (version 2b). Enough versions already, right?
 Version 2a |
 Version 2b |
 Version 2c |
Anyway, here are the original 7 sketches:
 Version 2 |
 Version 1a |
 Version 1b |
 Version 1c |
 Version 1d |
 Version 1e |
 Version 3 |
Do you, fair reader, have a favorite? Your insight is welcome.
Now it’s break time!